Games that Inspire Fun and Authentic Connections; with Short Board Games

Please note EVERYONE is welcome, and we mean EVERYONE.

Cooler weather is here. It’s a great time to be inside playing board games. Come explore what games you find fun for making connections. We’ll have a bunch of different short games to play. Then we’ll chat about game highlights and remember and share about fun times. We'll play a couple board games in groups and talk in groups and one on one. Notice what it's like to be heard and when you’re having fun connecting with people.

Authentic Relating (AR) has 5 main practices. Authentic Relating means sharing our inner truths in relation to others, while also holding space for their truth in the process. Welcoming our authentic selves will include practices to give space to discover more about what we are experiencing in the moment, and activities that allow us to contemplate our experience and then choose what to share based on bringing more connection to ourselves and others.

What to expect?

This is a workshop-style event with a supportive structure used to create a group context around the 5 practices of authentic relating:

• Welcoming everything
• Checking our assumptions
• Revealing our experiences
• Owning our experiences
• Honoring ourselves and others

Our intention is to provide an opportunity to celebrate ourselves on a deeper level and experience more connection with others from that place. In this day-and-age of conflict and divisiveness, we need more than ever to feel connected with ourselves and individuals in our community, learn to relate in a way that transcends differences, and honor our boundaries. This is the magic of authentic relating. I’m excited to share this practice with you!

You will find there is no “right” answer, and this session is meant not to analyze or proselytize others, but to learn and grow through the process of curiosity and understanding. How deep can we fall into a genuine curiosity to learn and understand our perspective and someone else's perspective, so that we can expand our own truth? That is the question we will be asking.

The result?
— Expanded relational awareness
— Deeper, more meaningful and intimate connections with self and others
— The potential to begin shifting lifelong relational patterns and blocks
All instructions and prompts will be provided; no experience necessary. This workshop is perfect for those new to AR as well as the well-seasoned.

GUIDANCE

• This event is for adults only.
• If you are needing to bring a service animal, please reach out beforehand.

COST:
$10 recommended donation. Please consider donating to help cover the costs of running this meetup. You can donate prior or during the event. Venmo: @dschreibero (#0110)

CANCELLATIONS
Please keep your RSVP up to date! If your circumstances have changed and you are unable to make an event, we understand and honor your humanness! Please change your RSVP on the event page to "not going" so that a space may open up for someone else.

About the facilitators:

Alexa Arribau has facilitated many Authentic Relating events. She loves learning about the art of connection with self and others. She continues to feel a sense of wonder in experiencing the way Authentic Relating makes the world feel like a friendly and welcoming place.

Guy Ganani has practiced Authentic Relating since 2021 and facilitated since 2023 at Google. He's volunteered as peer support at Burning Man, and as a regional Ranger offering conflict de-escalation and mediation. He can usually be found teaching skiing or snuggling his two cats.